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using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace Python.Runtime {

    /// 
    /// A MethodWrapper wraps a static method of a managed type,
    /// making it callable by Python as a PyCFunction object. This is
    /// currently used mainly to implement special cases like the CLR
    /// import hook.
    /// 

    internal class MethodWrapper {

	public IntPtr mdef;
	public IntPtr ptr;

	public MethodWrapper(Type type, string name) {

	    // Turn the managed method into a function pointer

	    IntPtr fp = Interop.GetThunk(type.GetMethod(name));

	    // XXX - here we create a Python string object, then take the
	    // char * of the internal string to pass to our methoddef
	    // structure. Its a hack, and the name is leaked!

	    IntPtr ps = Runtime.PyString_FromString(name);
	    IntPtr sp = Runtime.PyString_AS_STRING(ps);

	    // Allocate and initialize a PyMethodDef structure to represent 
	    // the managed method, then create a PyCFunction. 

	    mdef = Runtime.PyMem_Malloc(4 * IntPtr.Size);
	    Marshal.WriteIntPtr(mdef, sp);
	    Marshal.WriteIntPtr(mdef, (1 * IntPtr.Size), fp);
	    Marshal.WriteIntPtr(mdef, (2 * IntPtr.Size), (IntPtr)0x0002);
	    Marshal.WriteIntPtr(mdef, (3 * IntPtr.Size), IntPtr.Zero);
	    ptr = Runtime.PyCFunction_New(mdef, IntPtr.Zero);
	}

	public IntPtr Call(IntPtr args, IntPtr kw) {
	    return Runtime.PyCFunction_Call(ptr, args, kw);
	}


    }


}